Style Weekly: not a fan of baseball in the bottom
For those keeping score, Style Weekly’s cleverly-named cover story this week strongly criticizes the downtown stadium proposal. With the residents of Richmond divided on the issue, Style has clearly sided with those opposed to the stadium. It requires a deep-seated, religious-like faith to believe that a new ballpark for a team that doesn’t exist can […]
For those keeping score, Style Weekly’s cleverly-named cover story this week strongly criticizes the downtown stadium proposal. With the residents of Richmond divided on the issue, Style has clearly sided with those opposed to the stadium.
It requires a deep-seated, religious-like faith to believe that a new ballpark for a team that doesn’t exist can save downtown and become an economic catalyst for retail development, condos and new office buildings. You must turn a blind eye to decades of Richmond history and contrarian evidence, the almost-universal dismissal by academics that sports stadiums are economic generators.
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